C. Peter Wagner told that when he was young he attended “horse pulls.” One of the strongest horses could pull 7,000 pounds and another an amazing 9,000 pounds. But when the two horses were hitched together, they could pull 33,000 pounds.

While I stood outside an airport waiting for my ride, I saw a lady carrying a colorful bouquet of mixed flowers and thought, She wants to greet someone she loves carrying a gift of flowers.

When the people of Nazareth drove Jesus to a hill, intending to push him off a cliff, Jesus allowed them to drive Him to the edge. Then He simply slipped through the crowd and left. Jesus never lost control of the situation. He was always the One who chose the final outcome.

When our son Gregg was about four years old, I became aware that it’s a mother’s responsibility to take her children into Jesus’ presence.

At the close of one of my first days teaching at the Kansas School for the Blind, a fellow music teacher stood at the door of my studio and said, “You seem to be having a better start to your teaching than I did.”

When my husband Daniel was about to begin his third year of medical school, we knew he would have to be on call at night, sometimes leaving me alone as often as every third night. I was terrified to stay alone. We began praying that I would not be afraid those nights he had to stay at the med center.

Joe Smalley, director of Athletes in Action in Europe, developed a brain tumor and faced suffering, pain, and death.